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Update: CdA murder suspect Denson found dead

Murder victim Kelly Pease, 37, of Coeur d'Alene. (KHQ Twitter photo)
Murder victim Kelly Pease, 37, of Coeur d'Alene. (KHQ Twitter photo)

The man accused of killing a Coeur d’Alene resident Wednesday was found dead in a car on Bruss Road near Highway 53 Thursday afternoon.

Police had been searching for 61-year-old Steven T. Denson after his former fiance, 37-year-old Kelly A. Pease, was found shot dead in her car in a parking lot outside Kootenai Health Wednesday afternoon.

Someone spotted Denson’s vehicle Thursday and deputies located it parked on Bruss Road shortly after 4 p.m. Denson was found dead inside of an apparent self inflicted gunshot wound, said Det. Dennis Stinebaugh of the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office.

Pease, a Bonners Ferry native and nursing student at North Idaho College, died of a gunshot wound to her head. A hospital employee found Pease in her car in the north parking lot on the hospital campus and attempted CPR.

Denson was also accused of violently assaulting Pease earlier this year/Nina Culver, SR. More here.

 



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D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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